Movies: Adam Scovell

Short film built from photographs, sped up like a traditional stop motion and is meant to be an evocation of the English Eerie and Folk Horror....

An exploration of the cinematic history of the folk horror, from its beginnings in the UK in the late sixties; through its proliferation on British television in the seventies and its many manifestations, culturally specific, in other countries; to i...

A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more than a century of cinema. A hallucinated journey of immense beauty and brutality. A kaleidoscopic essay on how magic and madness have linked human be...

The Menhir Motorway is a super-8 film looking at the Ballard-scapes found on the peninsula of The Wirral, specifically in Wallasey. It examines the links between the urban menhir known as Grannies Rock and the nearby motorway's concrete labyrinths a...

Adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges' The Book of Sand. The film is built from stop motion photographs to create a living stop motion....

A short super-8 film walking several of Harold Pinter's poems about East London....

Short super-8 film of the Women's March in London put with some audio of Rebecca Solnit reading from her book, Hope In The Dark....

Film response to Colin Riley's Weather Words as part of the In Place project. Weather Words is a musical response to the many different words for weather as collected by Robert Macfarlane in his book Landmarks. For more information, visit www.inpla...

Heavy Water is the latest film by Adam Scovell. Adam’s films plait parallel histories – folk horror, literature, experimental film, experimental music – into relived journeys through super-8 landscapes that are dense with sound, texture and the assoc...

Ness is a Super-8 adaptation of the book by Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood. It concerns the strange, folkloric reverberations surrounding the ex-weapons testing facility, Orford Ness....

Short super-8 response to M.R.James' A Warning To The Curious, looking at the landscapes of Aldeburgh that inspired the original story....

Short super-8 film capturing the changes taking place in Soho and questioned by John Berger's essay on twelve theses on the economy of the dead....

Greenteeth is short wyrd fiction super-8 film based on a story by Gary Budden. It follows the gradual disintegration of a girl living on a canal boat in Kensal Green as the folklore of Jenny Greenteeth begins to manifest through her social problems....

Artefacts details the parts of The Wirral landscape that appear to have had life there but now only shows remnants of it....

Four Hills is a video built from photographs to create a living stop-motion and follows an Edwardian walker as he finds a strange pocket-watch that opens up a whole new dimension....

An essay drama film looking at Edward Thomas' attempted suicide a few years before he was killed in World War One....

Short super 8 film about the landscape in the writing of Alan Garner....

A man using a super 8mm camera in a stretch of beach accidentally summons a ghost....

A ghost story shot on super-8 revolving around a an ex-soldier in the 1950s whose fishing trip out onto a lonely marshland conjures haunted visions and attacks of the mind. Narrative is based vaguely on Algernon Blackwood's The Willows....

Short super 8 folk horror film about witches' rites performed in a stone circle....